{"id":723,"date":"2021-12-14T21:39:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T02:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lancastercountytrees.org\/blog\/uncategorized\/skyrocket-rocky-mountain-juniper\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T12:27:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:27:20","slug":"skyrocket-rocky-mountain-juniper","status":"publish","type":"cpt_trees","link":"https:\/\/www.lancastercountytrees.org\/trees\/skyrocket-rocky-mountain-juniper\/","title":{"rendered":"Skyrocket Rocky Mountain Juniper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lancastercountytrees.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/185A_Skyrocket_JPG.jpg\" alt=\"185a Skyrocket Jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lancastercountytrees.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/185A_Skyrocket_JPG.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.lancastercountytrees.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/185A_Skyrocket_JPG-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption>Grace Church Lancaster, 911 Rohrers- town Road, Lancaster PA<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This gorgeous plant, trimmed into a spiral topiary, is a cultivar that originated in the wild (found and named by Schuel Nursery, South Bend IN in 1949). \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skyrocket is a narrowly conical selection of Rocky Mountain Juniper (sometimes misidentified as Virginia Juniper,\u00a0<em>Juniperus virginiana).<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0The plant can grow 15-20 feet with only 2-3 feet of width. \u00a0The Grace Church specimen is already 12 feet tall and, with its feathery silver-blue foliage and spiral shape&#8230;.a stunning tree!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This amazing species is drought-resistant, maintenance-free (if not a topiary), pest-free, fast-growing, and ideal where space is limited.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" data-id=\"1338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lancastercountytrees.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/185B_Skyrocket_JPG.jpg\" alt=\"185b Skyrocket Jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lancastercountytrees.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/185B_Skyrocket_JPG.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.lancastercountytrees.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/185B_Skyrocket_JPG-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" data-id=\"1337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lancastercountytrees.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/185C_Skyrocket_JPG.jpg\" alt=\"185c Skyrocket Jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lancastercountytrees.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/185C_Skyrocket_JPG.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.lancastercountytrees.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/185C_Skyrocket_JPG-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure>\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Len\u00a0Eiserer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1335,"template":"","tax_tree-categories":[9,10],"acf":{"scientific_name":"Juniperus scopulorum 'Skyrocket' "},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - 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